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BROWN - HURON COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:31:59 EDT From: MWilli1008@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Church Records From Tuscarawas County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Section 19 Gnadenhutten and Sharon Monday, October 4th, 1841 Wolle's Diary Monday, October 4th. Bro. and Sister Tietze depart in the afternoon, and at half past eight 0oclock in the evening Bro. and Sr. Wolle arrive after a difficult drive, started the same day at Steubenville, 55 miles, and Mother Peter receives them into her home temporarily. The same evening a messenger was sent to the Bro. and Sr. at Newcomerstown with the letters and money which arrived for them. Wed. Oct. 6. After we had visited but a few brethren and sisters in Gnadenhutten and were received most lovingly, we used the opportunity of driving with Bro. Christian Blickensderfer to Dover to visit the brethren and sisters there. I make a vain attempt in New Philadelphia to obtain a permit to perform marriages of the Supreme Court. But only the Court of Common Pleas can grant this so I shall have to wait for this until their next sitting in May. We stayed overnight with Bro. and Sr. Jac. Blickensderfer. Thursday Oct. 9th. I drove a mile and a half to the house of Mr.William Harrison, whose wife died yesterday. I gave the funeral address in the house in the Englich language. She was buried in the Gnadenhutten God's Acre. Sunday, Oct 10. For the first time I opened the Sunday School in this place. Monday Oct. 11. We are busy bringing our goods over from Lock and unpacking, at which a number of young brethren are very helpful. But about noon someone soon takes me away with the sad message that sister Maria Demuth lay in the agencies of death. I rode up,--found the family and neighbors standing about her bed, deeply moved. But she lay, already quite unconscious. Wed. 13th The burial followed at which an exceedingly large audience was present. November 1841 Thurs. Nov. 4. At noon today our 62 year old Jacob Blickensderfer was buried. He died Tuesday night after being confined to bed 3 days. Sunday, 7th. After morning prayer occurred the baptism of August Benjamin Rehmel, little son of Bro. and Sr. John and Theresa Rehmel and after the sermon was the baptism of David Peter Frey, little son of Bro. and Sr. Samuel and Christina Frey and Matthias Taylor Heller, son of Thomas and Maria Heller. Monday, 8. We took to the road and in Werner's Valley we visited young Martin Keisers and old Joshus Davis's. In the evening we started the winter evening meetingss, which are customary: Monday, Bible History; Tuesday, Idea Fidei Fratrum; Wednesday, song service; Thursday, Reports; Friday, Liturgy. 10th & 11th. It is raining quite hard, the first time in a long while. The springs have often dried up completely and men and cattle suffer much in the hills from shortage of water. Sat. 13th Early in the morning Bro. Benj. Blickensderfer came over from Sharon to draw my attention to the fact that a special session of the Court in New Philadelphia was announced for today, in order that I might go and obtain my license to perform marriages. I drove thither then, but in vain. Sunday 14th. Baptism of a little daughter of Bro. and Sr. John and Mary Eliz Hueter, Lydia Ann. Thurs. 16th. At noon the body of a young man by the name of William Cherryholmes was brought here for burial. No appointment had been made with me and I came into not a little embarrassment as regards the sermon. But the father was satisfied with no desire for it, and I buried him, simply using the English Litany. He was 25 years old, with a bad reputation and died after a sickness of 14 hours. Wed. 17th. As on Saturday, the 3 Rehmel brothers worked again today on the barn to make it firm, all free of charge. Sunday 28th. First Advent. In Sharon I first prayed the litany,l then baptized a little daughter of Bro. and Sr. Jac. Romig's (Lucy Ann), followed by English preaching. I had arranged with Bro. Dan Demuth to be back again from Sharon by half past 3 o'clock to bury his deceased 7 weeks old twin daughter, Martha Rebecca; but a Church council which was held after the sermon and the bad read delayed my return by half an hour, and as the waiting on the part of friends became long and they were pretty far from home, they buried it in silence. Monday 29th. In the afternoon I visited the brethren and sisters, Henry and Charles Fromm's and others. This time it was principally to confer with Charles Fromm's children, John and Elizabeth, of whom I had heard reports that they engaged in card playing. After an ernest conversation with them in which they admitted that they were wrong in regard to this, they promised to give it up in the future and to seek to avoid the bad company where this was learned. I found that the girl, Aurelin Mohn, who was involved in this matter and in other evil affairs, was not at home; but I spoke with her Mother, and forbad her admission to the Lord's Supper for the time being. December 1841 Sunday 12th. After several days of rain the Tuscarawas has risen, so I had to use the ferry. I came back in the evening to practice Christmas pieces in our room with the choir. Wednesday, December 15. I had promised to come to Sharon today, but when I had ridden across the river here, I found the road so bad and the weather threatening snow and rain so I gave up my plan and visited Bro. and Sr. Phil Ranks. Saturday, Dec. 10 During recent weeks, the exterior of the church was being painted whenever the weather permitted and is now almost completed. Tuesday, Dec. 21 Butchered 2 fat hogs. But this year one had better purchased at 2 cents a pound than feed them oneself. Friday, Dec 24. Christmas Eve. We get out soon after the noon meal; Sister Wolle went along to help with the music after she had recovered somewhat from her indisposition. We were afraid we would have difficulty getting across the swollen river, but we were expected and crossed over nicely. At six o'clock we held the solemn vigils, without lovefeast and wax candless. with the lovely happy experience of Jesus' nearness and with a very large attendance--which was unexpected on account of the bad rough road. The chorus was very good. We stayed overnight with Bro. and Sr. John Blickensderfer. Sasturday, Dec. 25. Christmas DAy. The preaching service was opened with choir music. Then I preached on the gospel for the day in the English language, which was never before allowed to take precedence, but it nevertheless appears to have value and meets with the approval of the majority. For why should not the English portion of the congregation hear festival sermons? Therefore I alternate both languages quite regularly in Sharon and sometimes I hold the service, the communion and also prayer meetings in the English language. There was a large number in attendance again. We returned soon after the meal and Bro. Simon Blickensderfer went along with us and helped the ferryman take us across the rising river. In the evening at 6 o'clock there then followed the Christmas night festivity, with very good choral singing, lovefeast and wax candles for the children in our dear Gnadenhutten (Tents-of-Grace). This meeting as usual, was quite crowded. But everything went most orderly. Our piano was used for the music in the auditorium. Sunday, December 16. II Christmas. I felt very unwell after the exhaustion from yesterday and from a diarrhea coming from cold. But I was able for all that to preach the festival serman (German), and then hold the baptism of August Huebner's "Lorenz Leonhard" Friday, December 31. I had to ride alone to Sharon as sister Wolle was unable to go along. I had supper at Bro. and Sr. Simon Blickensderfer, and stayed over night with his parents, John Blickensderfers. The memorabilia was read in the church at half past 9 o'clock. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:04:52, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907301904.PAA07204@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: GEORGE E. GUNN - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 Page 417 GEORGE E. GUNN, son of Ralzamond and Betsy (Osband) Gunn, was born March 1, 1837, in Huron County, Ohio. Having learned the carpenter trade, he came to this township in 1858, but did not permanently locate until about two years later, having returned to his home in Ohio in the meantime. Before buying his present farm of eighty acres, in Section 35, he purchased land in Section 29, which he afterward sold. The year of 1864 Mr. Gunn spent in California, and was in Huron County, Ohio, in 1871 and 1872; since has worked at his trade in connection with farming. Mr. Gunn and Katherine A. Ridley were married on the 8th of February, 1866. She was born September 6, 1841; her parents, Jacob and Elizabeth Ridley, were natives of Pennsylvania, from where they went to Ohio, and are yet residing in Sandusky County. Mr. Gunn is a Republican. There are two children in Mr. Gunn's family -Emma A., born June 19, 1876, and Anna A., born February 8, 1867. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:04:50, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907301904.PAA12316@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: ALANSON BLACKMUN - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 Page 409 ALANSON BLACKMUN is the only one living of ten children in the family of Allen and Aseneth (Corbin) Blackmun, and was born in Huron County, Ohio, February 18, 1823. Allen Blackmun, a native of New York, in his early years was engaged in the manufacture of pearl-ash. After his marriage, he moved to Huron County, Ohio; lived there until the spring of 1839, when he came to this township, and settled on the place now owned by his son. The latter, Alanson Blackmun, first came here in March, 1843, but returned to Ohio, and in the fall of the same year, came back and located permanently. His father and mother both died here, the former in 1865, the latter, who was a native of Connecticut, in 1873; they were hard-working people, of Methodist Episcopal faith, and among the first comers to the county. The subject was reared a farmer, is of limited education, and was married, March 25, 1849, to Mariah Baker, whose parents came from Ohio to Steuben County, Ind., in about 1836. With the exception of one year in Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. Blackmun have resided on their farm. They have had four children -Albert E., Mary J., Charles A. and Weltha R. Both daughters are dead; Albert married Annie Miller, and resides in California; Charles married Lillian Gunn, and lives in this township. Mr. Blackmun is a Republican, as was his father, and a member of the Masonic Order of Wolcottville. He was appointed to the office of County Commissioner, in 1874, in the place of A. Dickenson, deceased, and after serving out his term was elected to another, again re-elected, and is yet serving. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:04:49, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907301904.PAA07188@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: IRA W. BROWN - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 Page 293 IRA W. BROWN, is the son of Abijah and Maria (Shoff) Brown. His birth occurred March 25, 1824, near Oxford, N.Y., and in 1838 he went to Bellevue, Huron Co., Ohio, with his parents. From the age of seventeen to twenty-one, he worked as an apprentice in the carriage and wagon manufactory of his father, afterward assuming the management for one and one-half years, when he bought his father's interest, and continued the business alone. In about 1847, he and his father purchased a farm in Sandusky County, Ohio, where Ira W. removed about two years later. He continued his trade, and manufactured a number of wagons that were taken overland to California during the golf excitement there. In the winter of 1854-55, Mr. Brown emigrated to this county, and after the arrival of his family in the spring, settled in this township. After his arrival here, he operated a stream saw-mill in Johnson Township, in partnership with his father, and brother Jacob. The two latter subsequently sold out to Ira W., who continued the business until 1866. In 1865, he moved onto his farm of 160 acres in this township, and has retained most of the timber on the land. In 1870, he built a saw-mill which he has since operated. Mr. Brown, in 1848, August 16, married Julia P. Lamson, whose birth occurred January 10, 1831, in Chenango County, N.Y. Her parents were Orson and Betsey (Shoff) Lamson, natives of New York. Mr. Brown is a member of A., F. & A.M. They have had six children; four are living -Llewellyn A., Clifford J., Louise B., now Mrs. Samuel Weir, and Ellsworth I. Mr. Brown is a leading farmer and lumber dealer, and has one of the finest residences in the township; his land is well cultivated and improved with good substantial buildings. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #566 *******************************************